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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I quit my job and am going to focus on writing. What could go wrong?

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is a really wonderful essay and I highly recommend it.

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Parul Sehgal's read on Rachel Cusk in the NYT magazine is notably reminiscent of the paper's own relationship to criticism.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

an unbelievably bleak story and one for which the usual ghouls in the British media have a lot to answer for, even though they won't

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

When you're home by yourself and you make pasta, that's called a Rummo one's own.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Musk did not just decide not to provide people with life saving aid. He *broke the law* in order to *deny promised aid*. 1

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This isn't going to do the numbers it should but what I could really go for (what I suspect society might need), is Adam Driver playing Larry Haun, and maybe that's a script I will write come the next winter.

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Having known the author for many years, I can confirm he is unhinged.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 01/05/2026

One of my favorite Oscar Wilde anecdotes is that he once did a reading and Q&A in a mine. With miners. Like down a mineshaft. He had this crazy idea that everybody of every occupation deserved and could benefit from art and information

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I always feel at home in Venice. The rapacious gulls, with their boundless appetites and insistent honking, are very American.

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Imagine a Willy Wonka figure but for cheese. That’s my next book.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/04/2026

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Mr. McGregor loved his garden. Loved his garden. He's not loving his garden so much right now. We told him to hand over the vegetables. His friend Mr. Redbreast. They didn't want us to have the vegetables so we had to go in very strongly. We went in very strongly and Mr. Redbreast died like a dog.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

“Of the twenty or so dogs I grew up with, she was one of two my parents euthanized. Two others were hit by cars. All the rest were shot.” — Dale Peck

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Dale Peck: “Dogsbody”

Dale Peck on the dogs of his childhood and the things we bury

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Nearly 40 years old and I can't say I've ever actually put the lime in the coconut, much less mixed them both together.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Jeremy Peters and other members of the anti-trans braintrust have covered this issue for *years* and are still so poorly informed about the basic empirics and actors on this beat that they see this statement as a shift rather than a reiteration. Think about how disqualifying that is.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

What's really going on here is twofold. First, the anti-trans "reporters" on this issue do not know their own beat. As I've said before, the anti-trans argument is a conspiracy theory. It posits that the medical field is handing out surgeries to kids at the slightest hint of gender nonconformity.

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Adam Dalva @adamdalva.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

A total pleasure to re-read and write about one of my very favorite novels, Robert Coover’s UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC. for the New York Times, recently reissued by NYRB. A captivating, prescient book. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

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Like Baseball? In This Book, You Can Play in Your Kitchen.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

cannot emphasize enough that these people are genocidal mass murderers. 100s of thousands of people are dead because of shuttering of US AID. these people did that. they are Nazi mass murderers.

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Donald Trump finding out from Howard Lutnick that the tariffs have been struck down, but the opposite www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9tD...

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Frasier - Out of Sherry

YouTube video by J P Vogel

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/02/2026

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Up now on @indyweek.bsky.social, an excerpt from this essential new @uncpress.bsky.social release. It tells the story of Wyatt Outlaw - a voting rights crusader and Graham’s first Black elected official. He was lynched in 1870. There are no public markers for his life yet, but now there’s a book.

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Welcome to Alamance County, North Carolina

An excerpt from "The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter" by Sylvester Allen Jr. and Belle Boggs.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

While doing some research, I came across a former horse racing columnist for the LA Evening Express named Joe Aporopolis and now I regret not having this much flare in my LAT byline photo.

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Ending a bad year on a good note: @atavist.com is excited to introduce Revived, a project breathing new life into old stories. We're releasing previously published features otherwise lost to dead outlets and dead links. First up, from @alexmarvar.bsky.social. magazine.atavist.com/2025/lummie-...

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The Two Faces of Lummie Jenkins

The people of Wilcox County, Alabama, remember the longtime sheriff as a god or a monster—it just depends on who you ask.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

He drew pictures of animals as fat as we could demand them. —Virginia Woolf, remembering her father when she and her siblings were kids

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Museum guy: sorry, I know you and your kids are having fun, but we closed 5 minutes ago Me: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Gooner Veltiner. Anything to that?

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Wow did I pick the wrong night to go to the Taco Bell in Times Square

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

@joepompliano on Threads posted a pic of a map dotted with dozens of yacht names and said: “Pretty much every billionaire that owns a superyacht is in St. Barth right now for New Year's Eve - Jeff Bezos, Miriam Adelson, Shahid Khan, Sergey Brin, Jerry Jones, and 100+ others”

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

“Giddyup jinglehorse” is one of the stranger lyrics

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Thats some jacket on the bartender in this conceptual rendering of an empty airport bar

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Joseph Osmundson @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Well! I wrote a book. I've been pretty quiet about it. I'm generally open to a fault: depression, breakups, body issues. But this book charts a part of my life very VERY few people know about. I almost had a kid. And then I didn't have a kid. electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...

Book cover for SPAWNING SEASON: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood by Joseph Osmundson. The cover includes a prominent image of a salmon, trumpet vines, and a collage of images of nature and a vintage image of sperm approaching an egg.

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Well that doesn’t seem good

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It’s strange to center-justify this.

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

"Never Marry a Railroad Man" is the best song about the untrustworthiness of railroad employees, who can't help but love their trains more than they love people — an unmistakable symptom of the metastasis of capital. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ja4...

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Shocking Blue - Never Marry A Railroad Man

YouTube video by Red Bullet

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The best comedy ever made, The Cable Guy, isn’t even on this list

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Ed Winstead @eswinstead.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

You mean to tell me that everyone's talking about the combination of sex and a pre-enlightenment understanding of science and the human body? Surely they're referring to this 4columns.org/livingstone-...

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Spectrum of Desire

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

“When he told them he was born in Raleigh, the agent questioning him grew angry, Vazquez said. They abruptly pulled off the road into the parking lot of a carpet cleaning company, where they dumped him, a half mile away from where they picked him up.” ncnewsline.com/2025/11/20/t...

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‘They basically just kidnapped me’: US citizen taken by Border Patrol in Cary • NC Newsline

As Border Patrol agents swept the Triangle area, a construction worker born in the U.S. was among those detained.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

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